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Conrad Swanson / Denver Post:
Colorado GOP Chair Ken Buck pressured local official to submit incorrect election results  —  Fellow Republican says congressman tried to bully him into committing a crime  —  Colorado Republican Party Chair Ken Buck, a U.S. representative from Windsor, pressured a local party official …
Discussion: Mediaite
George Conway / Washington Post:
Trump lashed out at me on Twitter.  It's because he knows the truth.  —  Americans died from covid-19 at the rate of about one every 42 seconds during the past month.  That ought to keep any president awake at night.  —  Not Donald Trump.  —  Just days ago, the president flipped …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Lincoln Project has its biggest day of fundraising after president attacks ‘Never Trump’ group  — The Lincoln Project, which is run by Republican operatives who oppose President Donald Trump, raised $1 million after the president ripped the group on Twitter this week - marking the super PAC's biggest day of fundraising yet.
Discussion: Newsweek, IJR and The Hill
ProPublica:
On the Same Day Sen. Richard Burr Dumped Stock, So Did His Brother-in-Law.  Then the Market Crashed.  —  The brother-in-law, a Trump appointee, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of stock.  Burr is under federal investigation over whether he traded on non-public information gathered through his work in the Senate.
Discussion: Axios, CNN and The Hill
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Admin shelves CDC guide to reopening country  —  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A set of detailed documents created by the nation's top disease investigators meant to give step-by-step advice to local leaders deciding when and how to reopen public places such as mass transit …
Discussion: New York Times, Raw Story and The Week
Ben Collins / NBC News:
‘What are we doing this for?’:  Doctors are fed up with conspiracies ravaging ERs  —  “I left work and I felt so deflated,” one doctor said about an effort to counter misinformation he saw on Facebook.  “I let it get to me.”  —  At the end of another long shift treating coronavirus patients …
CNBC:
Cuomo says it's ‘shocking’ most new coronavirus hospitalizations are people who had been staying home  — Early look at data from 100 New York hospitals shows that 66% of new admissions related to the virus are people who were at home, Cuomo said.  — He also said a majority of the cases …
Discussion: Big League Politics
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Denis Slattery / New York Daily News:   ‘Shocking’: 66% of new coronavirus patients in N.Y. stayed home: Cuomo
New York Times:
Germany and U.S. on Divergent Paths to Reopen  —  Online retailers, backed by Amazon, are beginning a campaign to press for billions of dollars to rescue the Postal Service.  Nearly one in five children in the U.S. are not getting enough to eat.  —  Here's what you need to know:
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump contradicts nurse in testy Oval Office exchange over coronavirus protective gear  — President Donald Trump contradicted a nurse who said that access to sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic “has been sporadic.”
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Nikki Carvajal / CNN:   Trump contradicts nurse he's honoring over PPE availability
Washington Post:
Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service  —  A top donor to President Trump and the Republican National Committee will be named the new head of the Postal Service, putting a top ally of the president in charge …
Associated Press:
Face masks make a political statement in era of coronavirus  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The decision to wear a mask in public is becoming a political statement — a moment to pick sides in a brewing culture war over containing the coronavirus.  —  While not yet as loaded as a “Make America Great Again” …
Discussion: Florida Politics, Fox News and KTLA
Ben Harris / Jerusalem Post:
Meet the 107-year-old woman who survived the coronavirus and Spanish flu  —  “It's remarkable,” Shapiro said.  “That's all I can say.  It's just unbelievable.  I think perhaps it's because of her art that she's still involved in.”  —  After Marilee Shapiro Asher was admitted to the hospital …
Kevin Rudd / Foreign Affairs:
The Coming Post-COVID Anarchy  —  The Pandemic Bodes Ill for Both American and Chinese Power—and for the Global Order  —  In January and February of this year, there was audible popping of champagne corks in certain quarters of the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Georgia shooting case will go to grand jury as disturbing video surfaces online  —  A Georgia prosecutor on Tuesday said a grand jury should review the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed in February after being chased by two armed men who told police he looked like a burglary suspect.
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Miami Herald:
FDLE releases list of COVID-19 deaths.  Top medical examiner calls it a sham.  —  Acting under intense pressure from a coalition of Florida news organizations and open-government advocates, the state Wednesday evening released a list of every Florida fatality documented by a medical examiner resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Sources say Russia probe transcripts affirm officials came up empty on collusion: ‘Schiff is in panic mode’  —  Rep. Adam Schiff refuses to release transcripts from House Intel Committee investigation of foreign meddling  —  EXCLUSIVE: Transcripts of House Intelligence Committee interviews …
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John Solomon / Just The News:   Adam Schiff may be the biggest loser of Russia probe declassification
Gregg Re / Fox News:
DOJ releases long-awaited Mueller scope memo, revealing the probe went beyond previously known mandate  —  The Justice Department on Wednesday released a mostly unredacted version of then-Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's August 2017 “scope memo” outlining the authority …
Discussion: Law & Crime
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Politico:
DOJ releases Mueller's marching orders
Discussion: Raw Story and Fox News
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden says he'll reverse DeVos rule bolstering protections for those accused of campus sexual assault  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that if he's elected president, he will reverse a rule issued by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos aimed at bolstering protections for students …
Discussion: The Bulwark and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
From a Miami condo to the Venezuelan coast, how a plan to ‘capture’ Maduro went rogue  —  Inside a glittering Miami high-rise, representatives of the Venezuelan opposition sat in a room adorned with samurai swords and listened to a pitch.  They had been appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó …
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Washington Post:
Arizona halts partnership with experts predicting coronavirus cases would continue to mount  —  Hours after Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, accelerated plans to reopen businesses, saying the state was “headed in the right direction,” his administration halted the work of a team …
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Trump Wanted a Softball Interview.  ABC's David Muir Obliged.  —  Insiders were dismayed as the president—who asked for Muir over ABC's chief anchor George Stephanopoulos—seemed to steamroll the star newscaster.  —  With the sort of near-mystical media savvy on which Donald Trump built …
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
ABC News's David Muir is no match for Trump's falsehoods
Discussion: ABC News, The Daily Caller and CNN
Joe Biden:
Statement by Vice President Joe Biden on the Filing of the Opening Briefs in California v. Texas  —  Today in our country, more than 1.2 million people have been infected with COVID-19.  More than 71,000 lives have been lost to this pandemic.  And millions more are facing enormous economic instability due …
Discussion: Forbes
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner / New York Times:
What Happened to Val Kilmer?  He's Just Starting to Figure It Out.  —  Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say.  —  It's hard to believe now, as I write this, but just two months ago, when we were allowed to roam free …
Ursula Perano / Axios:
Trump vetoes resolution to curb war powers against Iran  —  President Trump on Wednesday vetoed a war powers resolution that would have curbed his ability to direct military action against Iran without Congress' authorization.  —  Why it matters: The bipartisan measure came after Trump ordered …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Axios:
Trump and some top aides question accuracy of virus death toll  —  President Trump has complained to advisers about the way coronavirus deaths are being calculated, suggesting the real numbers are actually lower — and a number of his senior aides share this view, according to sources with direct knowledge.
Meghann Myers / Military Times:
Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military  —  As the Defense Department negotiates its way through the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, military entrance processing stations are working with new guidance when it comes to bringing COVID-19 survivors into the services.
Discussion: CNN and New York Post
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Gateway Pundit Reporter Lavishes Praise on Unabomber: ‘A Brilliant Man’  —  Cassandra Fairbanks, a right-wing activist and writer at the pro-Trump blog The Gateway Pundit, approvingly read passages from the Unabomber Manifesto last weekend in a late-night live video on Twitter, where she has hundreds of thousands of followers.
Ian Duncan / Washington Post:
Frontier Airlines is selling a social distancing upgrade for $39.  Democrats in Congress are appalled.  —  Starting Friday, customers will be able pay extra to guarantee a spot on the plane next to an open middle seat.  —  Democrats on Capitol Hill are blasting a plan by Frontier Airlines …
Leah Simpson / Daily Mail:
Shocking video shows white cop repeatedly beating a black man while another pins him to the ground ‘for not following social distancing rules’ - despite the officers not wearing masks themselves  — Footage from the incident on Tuesday afternoon shows a Jersey City police officer …
Stamford Advocate:
America's coronavirus divide is reflected in two New Mexico mayors.  One asked for a lockdown.  The other defied orders.  —  GALLUP, N.M. - Louie Bonaguidi had been mayor of this tiny city set among high desert buttes and Native American reservations for just a matter of hours last week when the governor called.
KING-TV:
Walla Walla County officials recall claims people were hosting coronavirus parties  —  Health officials in Walla Walla said people were intentionally exposing themselves to coronavirus, but have since walked back those claims. … Walla Walla health officials say some people …
Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling.  3 Percent of Women Agree.  —  A survey suggests that pandemic-era domestic work isn't being divided more equitably than before the lockdown.  —  Home schooling, the new parental chore brought about by coronavirus lockdowns …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's New Message: Time to Move On to the Recovery  —  The president's cure-can't-be-worse-than-the- disease logic is clear: As bad as the virus may be, the cost of the virtual national lockdown has grown too high.  —  WASHINGTON — Confronted with America's worst public health crisis in generations …
Discussion: Washington Post
Marquise Francis / Yahoo News:
A tale of two parks: Enjoying the sun in wealthy Manhattan, social distancing under police scrutiny in the Bronx  —  Thousands of New Yorkers flocked to city parks all over the five boroughs last weekend to enjoy sunny spring weather and temperatures in the 70s.
Discussion: Daily Kos
 
 
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Tatiana Siegel / Hollywood Reporter:
Was Sundance a “First Petri Dish” of Coronavirus in the States?
Discussion: Page Six
Politico:
Republicans praise Trump's pandemic response with Senate majority at risk
Discussion: VICE
Nicola Smith / Telegraph:
‘They wanted to take us sight seeing.  I stayed in the hotel’, says first foreign official to enter Wuhan
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Dolly Parton Is Backing Research Into Promising COVID Treatment
STAT:
Doctors lambaste federal process for distributing Covid-19 drug remdesivir
Aaron Boyd / Nextgov:
Homeland Security's Biometrics Database Is on Its Way to the Amazon Cloud
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
After Reviewing The Transcripts, George Papadopoulos Says He's Now Positive He Knows …
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Oklahoman.com:
House Republicans vote to reverse court ruling on absentee ballots
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
Federal Communications Commission:
Sinclair Agrees to Pay $48 Million Civil Penalty
Alan Judd / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
In northeast Georgia, a new COVID-19 hot spot emerges
Discussion: Salon, Washington Post and Raw Story
Kyle Kaminski / City Pulse:
Armed citizens escort lawmaker into Michigan State Capitol
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Twitchy
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / Axios:
Beijing demanded praise in exchange for medical supplies
Discussion: The Daily Caller